Brilliant stuff . Really like the pictures if Stanley station as you say what a shame nearly everything demolished or filled in . I remember my dad telling me about the pit that was at the junction of Aberford road and Bottomboat and about how it was capped off with concrete by a team working for the N C B . Look forward to the next installment.
thanks for the video darren, it's enlightening to know theres other abandoned railway enthusiasts out there. watching the videos calms me down after a busy week
I have seen a few of your video's. They are quite good. I know an old farmer from Wakefield who in his youth, used to take Rhubarb from his fields to Stanley station, early in the mornings so it could get to London in time for the markets to open.
Wow this is awsome back in the early sixties from weardale co Durham.. I used to visit my auntie at no2 mount rd and I've stood on that very bridge watching steam trains passing under bridge...getting dusted in smoke n soot ..👌👌👌
I lived in the Victorian house (6.02) from 1988 to 1995. My dad recommissioned all the original features of the house including the cast fireplace in the dinning room that had been painted white gloss, the magnificent cast range oven in the basement (boarded up!) that heated up all the rooms in the houses via the two connecting chimneys and the coal shoot from the front entrance path into the basement. Loved that house ☹️
There is half of an old black and white sign on Aberford road. Just before u crossed over to follow the path. It is hidden in the bushes 😎👍 I will send you a photo x
When I've been out exploring I've hit dead ends too and had to double back. It's annoying but you keep going. I followed an old line from my home town of East Kilbride but most of it's built on. They could never reopen it. It went to a station that's now a large housing estate. While you can follow the track the station is completely gone.
Love your series exploring close to the Lofthouse area where I live. When we moved here some 30+ years ago we put down hardstanding for the cars using old bricks. I recently took a closer look at them and found a lot, unsurprisingly, are stamped 'Armitage' but also some 'Lofthouse Brick Works' , 'Middleton Leeds' and 'St Johns Colliery'
A crying shame that cuttings were filled in and bridges demolished. I was wondering if you had managed to find a picture of the bridge over Bottom Boat Road, I had presumed it would be the same design as the Baker Lane bridge. I would like to see pictures of the Mount Road and Long Causeway bridges but possibly you don't have them as they did not feature on the video. Looking forward to the next part of the journey.
No I don't have any pictures. Although I'm sure some will appear eventually. They did for my other ones. Keep Watching the rest of the series, you will be surprised how it changes after this section, most still intact.
Wakefield to Leeds on the Aberford road in the fifties before the M62 was built there was a long downhill stretch and rise . The tracks crossed the road and were there after the line was closed.
Be interesting to see if you have any footage of Alverthorpe and Flanshaw, in Wakefield - Their used to a station called Alverthorpe Station, great vid, thanks
Just started watching your vids mate very interesting love watching anything todo with old railways etc and just downloed the theme to your channel lol
Hi adventure me and l liking the history of the railway lines and the weather sometime good and you Like getting out and about and some videos make my laugh and and me happy and I only just started watching your videos but I am watching your videos what you did last year and they are very interesting to watch
Hi, a small point that doesn't affect the history but at 10:32 into the video you say that the houses on the left of the path (St Peters Crescent) wouldn't have been there but they were and it's the houses on the right of the path (Holmfield Chase) that are new. You can still see the stone of the bridge abutment, at pavement level, in line with Holmfield Chase.
Great vlog, Shame the station building was demolished. I wonder why they bothered to fill the cuttings in , presumable they had a lot of spoil that needed dumping?
Hi pal noway i use to walk down that line late 80s with my grandad looked alot different back then there was all sorts laying around and you could se lots them couplings for the track as you walk down from the houses the hill on your right was made bluey gray slat chipping back then,they lived in houses were the line ran brought back dome good memories
@@AdventureMe iv addicted since first video of yours i came across like you said in the the old lock video i love to thing how things was back then,Stanley station video if you keep on walking the way you was past new market i remember coming to an old railway bridge the bridge was gone but the stone walls was still there
I’ve been watching a few of your videos and I will definitely be watching more . We find them very interesting and love local history. Please keep making them mate! . I was also wondering if you had heard of the old Barnsley canal that runs from Wakefield to Barnsley? It’s an old disused and derelict now but a very interesting place to visit.
AdventureMe That’s excellent mate can’t wait to see it! I’m sure you’ve done your research but if you need any help I can point you in the right direction no problem😀
Definitely not much left and just up from where you finished pass the M62 Bridge, went down the embankment and actually found some old wooden sleepers. Maybe more can be seen in winter?
Really like your walks. Do you think the concrete blocks at 15:25 could have been where lengths of fishbelly rail on stone support blocks. These are edgerails for wheels with flanges? Please see attached wikipedia link pic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagonway#/media/File:Chpr_rail.jpg
@@AdventureMe the Newmarket colliery video. Just been to see the old station masters house and methley station. Shame they laid tarmac over the rails but if you ever go back they’re recreated where the tracks would of been next to the platform.
Thanks for the video and chat. Always a pleasant journey into the past. Cheers mate.
Brilliant stuff . Really like the pictures if Stanley station as you say what a shame nearly everything demolished or filled in . I remember my dad telling me about the pit that was at the junction of Aberford road and Bottomboat and about how it was capped off with concrete by a team working for the N C B . Look forward to the next installment.
Cheers Ian.
thanks for the video darren, it's enlightening to know theres other abandoned railway enthusiasts out there. watching the videos calms me down after a busy week
Glad you enjoyed it
Very interesting video Darren. Love the history 👍🏻😀
Thanks 👍 an old one this.
Never seen this one before Darren. Still l enjoyed watching 👍🏻
I have seen a few of your video's. They are quite good. I know an old farmer from Wakefield who in his youth, used to take Rhubarb from his fields to Stanley station, early in the mornings so it could get to London in time for the markets to open.
Thanks Mate. Glad you are enjoying them.
Wow this is awsome back in the early sixties from weardale co Durham.. I used to visit my auntie at no2 mount rd and I've stood on that very bridge watching steam trains passing under bridge...getting dusted in smoke n soot ..👌👌👌
Wow. Never realised where the old station was. My uncle now lives in one of the houses in front of the retaining wall by where the crossing was!
Well there you go. He's right on top.
Another great video, love these series. Thank you
Thanks. More to come.
The bridge on long causeway as kids we could get under it,
Wish i'd seen it. I wasn't around here then.
I lived in the Victorian house (6.02) from 1988 to 1995. My dad recommissioned all the original features of the house including the cast fireplace in the dinning room that had been painted white gloss, the magnificent cast range oven in the basement (boarded up!) that heated up all the rooms in the houses via the two connecting chimneys and the coal shoot from the front entrance path into the basement. Loved that house ☹️
Sounds nice. Was the station remaining then or gone?
i think that in the 60s they could not predict what they were having for tea even if someone told them they were going to harry ramsdens
Been waiting patiently for this!
3 More to come
Hello and thank you so much😊
Thank you too
There is half of an old black and white sign on Aberford road. Just before u crossed over to follow the path. It is hidden in the bushes 😎👍 I will send you a photo x
Yes please. adventuremee@gmail.com
When I've been out exploring I've hit dead ends too and had to double back. It's annoying but you keep going. I followed an old line from my home town of East Kilbride but most of it's built on. They could never reopen it. It went to a station that's now a large housing estate. While you can follow the track the station is completely gone.
Love your series exploring close to the Lofthouse area where I live. When we moved here some 30+ years ago we put down hardstanding for the cars using old bricks. I recently took a closer look at them and found a lot, unsurprisingly, are stamped 'Armitage' but also some 'Lofthouse Brick Works' , 'Middleton Leeds' and 'St Johns Colliery'
Yes. There's a lot in the area. I keep seeing Armitage bricks in the woodland. My house is built out of them and the wood lane estate in rothwell.
I used to go past the remains of what I knew as Thorpe Brickworks between Outwood and Middleton. Was it actually called Lofthouse Brickworks then?
Most informative
A crying shame that cuttings were filled in and bridges demolished. I was wondering if you had managed to find a picture of the bridge over Bottom Boat Road, I had presumed it would be the same design as the Baker Lane bridge. I would like to see pictures of the Mount Road and Long Causeway bridges but possibly you don't have them as they did not feature on the video. Looking forward to the next part of the journey.
No I don't have any pictures. Although I'm sure some will appear eventually. They did for my other ones. Keep Watching the rest of the series, you will be surprised how it changes after this section, most still intact.
Fantastic videos keep it up it’s now a great bike trail 👍🏻🇬🇧
Thanks. More to come. Yes it is, I started using it as such this week.
Great video & the history of our railways 👌👌
Thanks Keith. I enjoyed this one.
@@AdventureMe do you know anything about Brackenhill Light Railway in Ackworth that be interesting?
Superb videos,thanks
Wakefield to Leeds on the Aberford road in the fifties before the M62 was built there was a long downhill stretch and rise . The tracks crossed the road and were there after the line was closed.
Be interesting to see if you have any footage of Alverthorpe and Flanshaw, in Wakefield - Their used to a station called Alverthorpe Station, great vid, thanks
Hi Jim, not currently. But when I cover it, I will do my usual research and reveal anything I find.
Just started watching your vids mate very interesting love watching anything todo with old railways etc and just downloed the theme to your channel lol
Cheers mate. It's a good song. Plenty more to come.
Hi adventure me and l liking the history of the railway lines and the weather sometime good and you
Like getting out and about and some videos make my laugh and and me happy and I only just started watching your videos but I am watching your videos what you did last year and they are very interesting to watch
Thanks Alison
Cheers mate
Hi, a small point that doesn't affect the history but at 10:32 into the video you say that the houses on the left of the path (St Peters Crescent) wouldn't have been there but they were and it's the houses on the right of the path (Holmfield Chase) that are new. You can still see the stone of the bridge abutment, at pavement level, in line with Holmfield Chase.
Thanks John. Yes I had it mixed up, someone corrected me not long after. I am going off memory from looking at maps at home.
Great vlog, Shame the station building was demolished. I wonder why they bothered to fill the cuttings in , presumable they had a lot of spoil that needed dumping?
Easy place to dispose of rubbish for free for the council I suspect.
The GN railway in the West riding by Martin bairdtow,has some good info and pictures of Stanley station and the m.j.r
Enjoyed the video. Pleased you got at least one 'find'.
Only one. But many more surprisingly in the next videos.
Like this too 😎
Very interesting keep up the good work
Thank you.
Hi pal noway i use to walk down that line late 80s with my grandad looked alot different back then there was all sorts laying around and you could se lots them couplings for the track as you walk down from the houses the hill on your right was made bluey gray slat chipping back then,they lived in houses were the line ran brought back dome good memories
Thanks Lee, glad you enjoyed.
@@AdventureMe iv addicted since first video of yours i came across like you said in the the old lock video i love to thing how things was back then,Stanley station video if you keep on walking the way you was past new market i remember coming to an old railway bridge the bridge was gone but the stone walls was still there
@@leeshipley5075 Keep watching the next part Lee, you will see that bridge.
@@AdventureMe hi would that be part 3 pal
I’ve been watching a few of your videos and I will definitely be watching more . We find them very interesting and love local history. Please keep making them mate! . I was also wondering if you had heard of the old Barnsley canal that runs from Wakefield to Barnsley? It’s an old disused and derelict now but a very interesting place to visit.
Awesome! Thank you! Oh I will. Got much more to come. Yes, I have the Barnsley Canal on my list for the future.
AdventureMe That’s excellent mate can’t wait to see it! I’m sure you’ve done your research but if you need any help I can point you in the right direction no problem😀
Really interesting Thankyou
Glad you enjoyed it
Definitely not much left and just up from where you finished pass the M62 Bridge, went down the embankment and actually found some old wooden sleepers. Maybe more can be seen in winter?
I actually found the sections from here onwards much better with remains, as you will see in the next videos. I wasn't expecting anything much.
Hey I saw a white,black, and orang van and if you watch the video and zoom in the van is my dads
The station closed in 1964,but stood empty and boarded up until it was demolished in1975.
Great vlog! Keep up the good work. Anyone find out anything about Dutch Duke?
Not that I know of. Nobody has suggested anything yet.
Could have been someone's dog
Great video, any update on the wheldon road railway video ?
Summer this year hopefully. Just started the Leeds New Line. Probably after that.
@@AdventureMe thanks for replying, I’m looking forward to it,
Just finished walking the old cutskye railway line, got to say I enjoyed it, worth the walk :)
Really like your walks. Do you think the concrete blocks at 15:25 could have been where lengths of fishbelly rail on stone support blocks. These are edgerails for wheels with flanges? Please see attached wikipedia link pic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagonway#/media/File:Chpr_rail.jpg
Was it known as Stanley Bottom ?
Yes
Have you got a link for the other video where you got stuck
Which one?
@@AdventureMe the Newmarket colliery video. Just been to see the old station masters house and methley station. Shame they laid tarmac over the rails but if you ever go back they’re recreated where the tracks would of been next to the platform.
th-cam.com/video/2_yNJQoALE0/w-d-xo.html
Hope you managed to find out what the grave stone / post was for 🪦
No. Never did